Decommissioning

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will work with the Energy Department and a New York state agency in drafting a scoping plan for Phase 2 cleanup of the West Valley Demonstration Project near Buffalo, N.Y. In late September DOE asked the NRC to participate in the supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) process to ensure the West […]

Centrus Energy said this week it anticipates completing cleanup of its retired advanced centrifuge technology demonstration site in Piketon, Ohio, by the end of the year. Decontamination and decommissioning of the American Centrifuge facility began in the second quarter of 2016 after the Department of Energy cut off funding for the project the year before […]

Contractor CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) has earned $300,000, or 66 percent, of its potential fee from the Energy Department for six months of cleanup work at the West Valley Demonstration Project near Buffalo, N.Y. The fee was awarded for the joint venture’s performance between March 1 and Aug. 29 of this year, according […]

AECOM leadership said Monday it sees great potential in the nuclear plant decommissioning market in the United States, Canada, Japan, and elsewhere. The global engineering and infrastructure company is already muscling into the business. In December 2016, an AECOM-EnergySolutions team landed the roughly $1 billion general contract business for decommissioning the San Onofre Nuclear Generating […]

Construction of the Mercury Treatment Facility at the Department of Energy’s Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee will ceremonially begin Monday with assistance from two U.S. lawmakers. Scheduled to attend the 10 a.m. Nov. 20 groundbreaking ceremony are Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), and Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.). The Energy […]

Centrus Energy said this week it anticipates completing cleanup of its retired advanced centrifuge technology demonstration site in Piketon, Ohio, by the end of the year. Decontamination and decommissioning of the American Centrifuge facility began in the second quarter of 2016 after the Department of Energy cut off funding for the project the year before […]

AECOM Chairman and CEO Michael Burke said Monday the international engineering and infrastructure company sees decommissioning of nuclear power plants as a potential $200 billion global market. Burke also indicated that AECOM’s experience in cleaning up the legacy of U.S. Cold War nuclear operations, together with the company’s power expertise, makes it a natural for […]

Contractor CH2M Hill BWXT West Valley (CHBWV) has earned $300,000, or 66 percent, of its potential fee from the Energy Department for six months of cleanup work at the West Valley Demonstration Project near Buffalo, N.Y. The fee was awarded for the joint venture’s performance between March 1 and Aug. 29 of this year, according […]

Workers at the United Kingdom’s Sellafield site have started slowly bringing down a 61-meter-tall chimney that provided ventilation for nuclear material reprocessing operations. Demolition began last month and is expected to be completed by 2020, according to a press release from the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA). The 1950s-era chimney, which stands on the 61-meter […]

AECOM management said Monday the engineering company remains a major player in cleaning up the U.S. Department of Energy’s nuclear complex and believes it has a real chance of overturning its recent loss of the $4.7 billion contract for liquid waste management at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. “We still consider the Savannah […]

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has requested additional data from power provider Entergy regarding the application to transfer the operations and spent fuel storage licenses for its Vermont Yankee nuclear plant to planned facility buyer NorthStar Group Services. Entergy closed Vermont Yankee in 2014, and in February joined the New York City-based nuclear decommissioning specialist […]

An administrative law judge for the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on Wednesday recommended approval of Pacific Gas & Electric’s application to close the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant by 2025. The utility last year announced a joint proposal with labor and environmental organizations to shut down Diablo Canyon reactor Unit 1 in 2024 and […]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has requested additional data from Entergy regarding the application to transfer the operations and spent fuel storage licenses for its shuttered Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant to planned facility buyer NorthStar Group Services. The companies filed the application in February with the federal regulator, with the aim of completing the sale […]

SNC-Lavalin President and CEO Neil Bruce said Thursday that the Montreal-based engineering company enjoyed a solid third quarter and that the integration of British engineering and project management provider WS Atkins is nearly complete. “We are pleased with our third quarter results, which include a contribution from our recent transformational acquisition of Atkins,” Bruce said […]

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission plans by the middle of this month to release the final regulatory basis for its nuclear power reactor decommissioning rulemaking, a senior official said this week. That milestone would be followed by two years of work on the rule itself, with the commission voting on the final document in fall […]

Thomas Gardiner Southern California Edison, primary owner and operator of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), this week announced $30 million net income growth in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same period of last year. The boost was announced in the latest earnings filing from SCE’s parent company, Edison International. The […]

Southern California Edison, primary owner and operator of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), this week announced $30 million net income growth in the third quarter of 2017 compared to the same period of last year. The boost was announced in the third-quarter earnings filing from SCE’s parent company, Edison International. The Southern California […]

The Energy Department, Boeing and NASA have submitted a plan to the California Department of Toxic Substances Control outlining how they plan to determine baseline air quality prior to cleanup work at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory. That’s among the recent milestones cited in a September report by (California Department of Toxic Substances Control) DTSC […]

Piketon, Ohio, Mayor Billy Spencer is urging the state’s U.S. senators to oppose funding to build the on-site disposal cell for waste from cleanup of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. “DOE has made it clear that they fully intend to bury radioactive, toxic and hazardous waste in Piketon despite the community’s opposition, and Ohio EPA […]

Groundwater contamination at the site of old Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Tennessee may persist beyond 2020, when the Department of Energy’s current $2.5 billion cleanup contract with URS-CH2M Oak Ridge (UCOR) ends. David Adler, director of DOE’s Oak Ridge Environmental Management Quality and Mission Support Division, told a local advisory board that some […]

A private entity is set to take deed of an old nuclear-weapons support facility in Kansas City, Mo., for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semiautonomous Department of Energy stockpile steward said. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) approved transfer of the Bannister Federal Complex, where the NNSA once manufactured non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons, […]

A closed nuclear power plant is an economic challenge to its host community that that could linger for decades while it is torn down and its radioactive waste waits to be removed at some undetermined point in time. This requires a response that is equally focused on the present and the future, according to Rep. […]

Power company Entergy on Tuesday reported higher earnings on both an as-reported and operational basis for the third quarter of the year. After-tax as-reported earnings rose from $388.2 million ($2.16 per share) in third-quarter 2016 to $398.2 million ($2.21 per share) in the latest earnings period. Operational earnings, on a non-generally accepted accounting principles basis, […]

Piketon, Ohio, Mayor Billy Spencer is urging the state’s U.S. senators to oppose funding to build the on-site disposal cell for waste from cleanup of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant. “DOE has made it clear that they fully intend to bury radioactive, toxic and hazardous waste in Piketon despite the community’s opposition, and Ohio EPA […]

A private entity is set to take deed of an old nuclear-weapons support facility in Kansas City, Mo., for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semiautonomous Department of Energy stockpile steward said Thursday. Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) approved transfer of the Bannister Federal Complex, where the NNSA once manufactured non-nuclear components of nuclear […]

Some 31 of 305 bioassays collected from workers after the airborne spread of radioactive contamination at the Hanford Site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) in June have tested positive for internal radioactive contamination. Doses were very low, the Department of Energy said in a statement on Wednesday.  Of the 31 workers with positive results, 18 had […]

The government of the United Kingdom this week largely kept mum regarding reports that it might directly take over decommissioning of its shuttered Magnox nuclear sites. Industry sources told the Financial Times it appeared probable that the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) would establish a subsidiary to manage cleanup of the 10 Magnox nuclear power […]

CH2M Hill Plateau Remediation Co. has awarded an $11.3 million subcontract to prepare for installation of remotely operated equipment to clean up the highly radioactive spill beneath the Hanford Site’s 324 Building. The subcontract went to Apollo Mechanical Contractors, headquartered in Kennewick, Wash., near Hanford. Apollo is expected to begin work in the next few […]

The government of the United Kingdom on Monday largely stayed mum regarding a report that it might directly take over decommissioning of its shuttered Magnox nuclear sites. Industry sources told the Financial Times that it appeared probable that the U.K. Nuclear Decommissioning Authority would establish a subsidiary to manage cleanup of the 10 Magnox power […]

Taxpayers in the United Kingdom are on the hook for up to £122 million in costs associated with a botched contract for decommissioning of the nation’s Magnox nuclear facilities, the U.K. National Audit Office said in a blistering report Wednesday. The government’s Nuclear Decommissioning Authority announced in March that the £6.1 billion cleanup contract awarded in 2014 […]